This time, I saw the efficiency of Gomon and Micho and other officials.

Oran knows that when taxes are collected elsewhere, only worse!

He also had a plan in his mind, and quickly returned to King's Landing, and instructed his cronies, "Build me a knight's sword, and then ...... it"

By the end of May, Oran's "paper" was already in full swing.

When the Ansar merchants touched this smooth commodity, they at first thought it was imported from the south.

But after seeing a large amount of commodity paper, it was finally determined that it was from Northumbria.

The inventor Joan of Arc performed miracles on the paper according to Oran's words, so that he was able to create this luxury exclusive to the East.

Make a splash.

At the royal court of Mercia, King Burgred urgently opened a court council.

Princess Hirsch was also listening, but her attention was on the flat and smooth paper.

"Your Majesty, this thing will affect the interests of our Mercia Woollen Paper, and Oran should be forced to make it clear." A county magistrate said.

"Don't worry, this paper is fragile and can't be preserved, and it's not as good as our vellum paper." A knight who can't even write his own name.

What the two men said made Hirsch frown.

When the meeting was over and the couple was alone, the king looked at the princess and sought her advice.

"I tried it, it's easy to ink, it has a lot of potential, if the price can be lower and the production can be increased, it will quickly occupy the bookstores of all churches and nobles."

"What a miracle?"

On the surface, he seems to accept God, but in his heart he has always followed the Anglo-Saxon tradition, and his heart is a little shaken.

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In the past, such precious goods were obtained from northern Italy or other eastern regions of God, rather than from the more recent Inberian Peninsula.

The peninsula is now divided into north and south, with the south being strong and the north weak.

To the south is the "kingdom of Wuyemai" of the Crescentists, and papermaking is in their hands.

More than 100 years ago, the "Tang Empire" in the East fought with the Arabian Peninsula, and papermaking was introduced, and then along North Africa, to the peninsula.

And neither Italy nor South Villa could give the secret recipe to Oran, so the king could not refute the miracle for a while.

Hirsch believed in God, but he didn't believe that God would bless bastards like Orlan who killed his relatives and amassed wealth through atonement.

"Whether it is or not, it is only profitable, he will help us sell it, didn't Orlan also say, bring the holy woman immediately, and add a fire to your reputation and burn up the group of robbers."

He added, "There is no secret that will never be revealed, after a long time, you will know where his paper came from, and when you clean up the Vikings, you will use the identity of the alliance leader to force him to confess, if it is really a miracle, the Lord will manifest himself, if not, then what is there to be afraid of?"

The huge commodity interest led Hirsch to convince King Burgred to let down his guard and continue to cooperate.

When the paper arrived in Wessex, it still led to a royal council.

If it weren't for Mercia, the Vikings would have been the first to greet Northumbria with their army.

Peace and reciprocity?

No, Wessex, who has always wanted to unify the Seven Kingdoms, will not sit idly by and ignore the opportunity for its neighbors (the Northern Alliance) to reap huge profits.

But the Vikings were still there, and Orlan also sent someone to apologize, and Oran's caravan also came to propose, the north produced, and the south helped sell.

Wessex had quite a few merchant ships that could be sold to the Franks themselves, and even crossed the "Strait of Brittany" and docked north of the Implias Peninsula.

Trade with the kingdom of "Asturias", which believes in God.

Because I calculated the risks in advance, I thought about the distribution of benefits.

Olam withstood the pressure and was finally able to sell the paper quickly.

He used three shifts to collect raw materials frantically and produce them day and night.

He collected everything that could be eaten, clothed, and used as war materials.

June 1.

Oran re-entered Mercia with two hundred men from Alderborough, accompanied by his ally, Otto, the governor of the county, and met with King Mercia.

One is born, and the second is ripe.

Oran came back this time, and his performance was more stable than last time.

The nobles of the kingdom were questioned by the king at the behest of the king, and they were all prevaricated by him, and they bluntly said miracles!

God is not to be doubted, some people believe it, but those who do not believe can only guess in their hearts.

Later, Orlan had a long conversation with Bergred in his study.

"You want to counterattack early?"

"Your Majesty, on the face of it, the Vikings have two in Wessex, one in East Anglia, one east of Lincoln, and four allied forces.

However, according to recent intelligence from the port, Ragnar returned to Sweden and Rollo's ships entered the eastern side of the North Sea.

The Vikings from Denmark and Ireland haven't made a big move, so how many can stay on the island?

There is one more thing that I am more sure of.

Throughout the month of May, Anglo-Saxon celebrations were held everywhere, but none of the Vikings launched a raid on us, and no reports of disaster were heard from our merchants when they delivered papers to Wessex.

It is clear that the people of Ragnar have gone a lot, they have come across the sea, and they have to recuperate. ”

King Burgred was in trouble, and he had been recuperating for almost half a year after the Battle of Repton, and he began to like the feeling of peace again, so why bother to stimulate this crazy wolf if the Vikings didn't take the initiative to fight?

Watching Burgred pretend, Orlan knew that he needed to have enough advantage and victory before he moved and continued to persuade.

"Regardless of how many there are in the other three, I don't think there will be more than three or four hundred Vikings in Lincolnshire alone.

They need supplies, and they have not moved for two or three months, so they can only be transported by sea.

After half a year of recuperation, they must have thought that we would not take the initiative, so they took the lead. ”

"Your Excellency Oran, but I have heard Berry say that they are all on the edge of the open sea, and they are scattered, fighting in small groups, with dexterity, and if they can't fight, they will flee, and they will turn around and return to the sea, and it is precisely because of the difficulty that Berry has not cleaned up."

"Your Majesty, we don't need to know where they are, we just need to let them go."

"Huh?"

"Word has been sent that the Vikings are afraid of us, and that the Holy Maiden will be in Lincolnshire in June for a great celebration of the Lord's Grace, which is a continuation of the May celebrations, and that your princess will bring someone to bless you on your behalf.

There are not many guards, a lot of goods and treasures, and the twenty Viking prisoners of war captured in the Battle of Repton will be burned at the stake on the same day!

Use profit and hatred, as well as the mentality of saving your companions, to lure the evil wolf out. ”

"And what if they still don't move?"

"I will personally take a crack army and go south from York. They are not the only ones who can raid or guerrilla warfare, the entire hinterland is ours, and we have support to win and defeat, but they cannot.

In addition to revenge, this battle is also to stand up, I had a dream, there are actually two miracles, one is paper, the other is a sword. ”

"Whose sword?"

"Arthur's sword in the stone, it will return to England, to the hand of the true king."

Bergred swallowed, whose else could this sword be......